Horace Campbell is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University. His recent book is Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya. He is author of: Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney; Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation; Pan Africanism, Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st Century; and Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics. Follow on Twitter @Horace_Campbell.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Discussing the Malian crisis on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes

On January 27, I was on MSNBC's UP with Chris Hayes to discuss ongoing
crisis in Mali and North Africa. In my contribution I stated that the US and
Western powers should review their policies of military engagement with Africa.

The multiplicity of militias that were supported by the U.S. to overthrow
Muammar Gaddafi have continued to contribute to the destabilization of Libya
and other African countries. The leader of the Malian coup that preceded the
ongoing instability in that country had just received military training from
the U.S. military before the coup. The aspiration of African people is peace,
unity, and reconstruction, not militarization.

Anyone who advocates for French military intervention to
helps Africans does not have a sense of the history of brutality, destruction,
and killings and tortures that have been carried out by France in Africa.